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jqpi3stc4i64
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4 days ago

Suggestion for a New “Castaway-style” Experience in The Sims

I am a long-time fan of The Sims, and I would like to share a suggestion that I believe many players would enjoy.

One of my favorite titles in the series was The Sims: Castaway on PlayStation 2, and I think a modern version or an inspired “Castaway-style” experience would be an amazing addition to the newer Sims games.

 

The idea of guiding a Sim through survival on a deserted island—exploring, gathering resources, building shelters, and interacting with other castaway Sims—offers a unique gameplay style that is not currently available in the recent titles. Bringing this concept back with updated graphics, mechanics, and storytelling could offer a fresh, creative direction while still keeping the heart of The Sims experience.

 

Thank you for all the wonderful work you do and for continuing to support the community. I appreciate the opportunity to share ideas like this.

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  • jqpi3stc4i64​ I've played this kind of challenge a few times with Island Living in a few different ways. I've shipwrecked a few Sims in Mua Pel'am with no funds as part of the Making Money scenario and they've fished, beachcombed and harvested for food and items to sell and plant. Eventually they either leave the island and buy a home, travel around other worlds living out of a tent for a while or build a home in Sulani and stay there. 

    With my last one I missed the element that Castaway had where you could build a house by collecting resources. So I combined it with Eco Lifestyle's content and had her fabricating her own furniture. I decided she'd only use what she found or made to furnish the home. So, the bathroom/kitchen was salvaged from dumpsters (I had to buy kitchen units because I couldn't find matching ones). She has the restored kitchen items from the Restoration Workshop kit. She made all her own flower arrangements (Seasons), jewellery (Crystal Creations), candles (EL) and pottery (B&H) and paintings. She used the knitting skill (Nifty Knitting) too to make some rugs and decor. I gave her the Freegan Trait. Even her flowers for her arrangements and her fruit and vegetables in her garden were all from things she found instead of buying seed packets. She even made the planters herself. Her dog was a rescued stray too. So she started out with a deserted island lot in Sulani but ended up with a homemade home. I made it all in wood panelling and flooring too, to remind me of the wooden homes they built in Castaway. 🌴

  • I'd also play TS2 Castaway for PS2 and loved it for life. The fact that the multiple aspirations are tied to lore discoveries about past castaways, pirates and lost volcano civilization while we need to be better at surviving is everything for me.

    But i've seen and made suggestions for packs like this a long ago and we didn't got much. Maybe the team think that Island Living and now Enchanted by Nature are enough to replicate this gameplay.

    I've thought of what a pack like this could add that is different from existing packs or how it could fit in a bigger theme pack and since i wanted to have traditional indigenous people and Brazil to be portrayed in the game, and really loved what the team did with indigenous eepresentation with Horse Ranch (i'm even headcanoning that Strangerville has some too), i came with a Jungle Living/Lifestyle kind of pack where we would be able to live like the Amazon rainforest indigenous people in a whole different lifestyle we know.

    We could have collecting vegetables, hunting animals with spears and other weapons, weaving basket, creating beads accesories, playing traditional sports, traditional musical instruments, having community engagement, manually building homes from scratch using natural resources, etc. and the castaway gameplay could be another way to live in the jungle/forest: Alone and surviving. I think i'll do a specific thread for it in the future.

     

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